Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and ME

I know that you're renowned in, I think it was chronic fatigue syndrome and some other sort of conditions similar to that area. And chronic fatigue is the worst treated condition in the Western world. In the 1980s, I remember reading that the acronym, T-A-T-T, all the time, constituted 40% of GP consultations then. Of course, it's not 40% now because people have worked out that the doctors are no good at that. Instead of asking the question, why is this person fatigued? They maybe do some basic tests to make sure there's no major pathology there. And then they dismiss the patient as being a hypochondriac.

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